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  • It’s debt by a thousand cuts. Congress doesn’t want to know because most states have lucrative defense contractors helping prop up their economy.

    DoD contract obligations, payroll spending, and grant awards in the 50 states and the District of Columbia totaled $558.7 billion, which is 2.2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.  If the total spending were divided across every U.S. resident, it would amount to $1,679 per U.S. citizen.  Of those funds, $389.5 billion (70 percent) were spent on contracts for products and services, $159.4 billion (28 percent) paid the salaries of DoD personnel, and $9.7 billion (2 percent) were awarded as grants.

    Virginia, Texas, and California topped the list of recipients for overall defense spending.  However, Virginia, Hawaii, and Connecticut ranked highest when considering defense spending relative to their respective state GDPs.

    The top ten states for total Defense spending in Fiscal Year 2022 were:

    Rank State Defense Spending (billions)
    1 Virginia $62.7
    2 Texas $58.0
    3 California $56.2
    4 Florida $30.2
    5 New York $28.1
    6 Maryland $26.4
    7 Connecticut $22.3
    8 Pennsylvania $17.9
    9 Massachusetts $15.2
    10 Arizona $15.0

    Texas, Connecticut, and North Carolina had the largest overall increases in DoD spending from Fiscal Year 2021 to 2022.

    Source (actually the government funny enough)






  • This was my feeling after seeing it too. Architects also love to see models and more tangible things, even printouts in my experience.

    Offering a fully rendered environment sounds amazing but someone would have to do a lot lore work at the office before presenting it to the client because it would look less complete than simple foam models can.

    It may be useful for investor presentations for really large projects (Saudis or UAE style projects), but again, those are pretty narrow audiences and so expensive that bespoke displays could be viable.